on 2/28/05 6:15 PM, Henrik Theiling at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Jonathan Chang <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>> Niceness. Good to know that there is another "fan" of Ancient Chinese on the
>> list. Ambiguity is a rather interesting conlang aesthetic IMHO - it adds a
>> poetic/metapoetic dimensionality to the conlang that goes beyond mere or
>> simple idiomatic usage.
>
> Yes, ambiguity was a major design principle of the language -- it
> introduced some confusion in a relay by being so short, I think... :-)
LOL
> Currently the language is frozen, because I cannot really *think* that
> ambiguously and I think I've reached a fixed point in understanding
> the structure -- I don't seem to be able to make progress. Any time I
> wanted to introduce some sort of improvement into the grammar, it did
> not let me to. It seemed to be consistent in being ambiguous. It's
> meant to be a protolang now.
Hmmm, mayhaps Tyl Sjok's "offspring" could be like a less ambiguous language
much like Classical Chinese is to Ancient Chinese, but no less "poetic."
Part of my goal with gomilego is to create a creole with similar metapoetics
but arising from (futuristic, polyglot) pidgin techno-slang. Easier said
than done... ::wrings hands:: ... but definitely part of the
monkeybrain-wrackin' fun.
> **Henrik
>
> PS: My site is www.theiling.de. Tyl Sjok is at /conlang/s2. Quite
> outdated, though, since when I changed to a new Latex2HTML, it
> broke.
Thanx.
--
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Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...
"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_